]] Brian May > On 7 May 2013 17:03, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Now, if I had PPA, then I could follow upstream release cycles. Every 6 > > months, I would destroy the PPA for OpenStack stable -2, and create a > > new stable PPA. I could put all the backport software I need in there. > > No need to worry anymore about the release cycles not in sync with what > > we do in Debian. Since most things are Python, I could still continue to > > upload the modules into SID (or Experimental during the freeze), and as > > the brilliant plan for the Debian PPA will not add duplication, it will > > be "for free", just giving a list of packages that I wish to import. > > > > In what way would this be better then using Debian Backports?
Providing backports doesn't free you from the burden of making sure upgrades work. Thomas is facing a very large chunk of work to make sure upgrades from the no-longer-supported E release to whatever might be in jessie, since upstream breaks APIs and doesn't support skipping releases when upgrading. >From what I've understood from upstreams in the openstack community, something like the ppamain concept would be welcome. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87li7rus1r....@qurzaw.varnish-software.com
